This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
This is a list of authors who have written works of fiction in the Russian language. The list encompasses novelists and writers of short fiction.
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Narine Abgaryan (b.1971) | Three Apples Fell From the Sky Manyunya | ||
| Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983) | The New Life Wooden Horses Two Winters and Three Summers |  | ||
| M. Ageyev (1898–1973) | Novel with Cocaine |  | ||
 | Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928–2008) | Jamilya The White Ship The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years |  |  |
 | David Aizman (1869–1922) | The Countrymen | ||
 | Sergey Aksakov (1791–1859) | The Scarlet Flower The Family Chronicle Years of Childhood A Russian Schoolboy |  |  |
| Vasily Aksyonov (1932–2009) | The Burn Colleagues Generations of Winter The Winter's Hero | |||
 | Boris Akunin (born 1956) | Erast Fandorin series Nicholas Fandorin series Sister Pelagia series |  | |
 | Mikhail Albov (1851–1911) | On the New Road | ||
 | Yuz Aleshkovsky (1929–2022) | The Hand Kangaroo | ||
 | Alexander Amfiteatrov (1862–1938) | Napoleonder The Fire Flower |  |  |
 | Daniil Andreyev (1906–1959) | Roza Mira |  | |
 | Leonid Andreyev (1871–1919) | Darkness The Abyss The Red Laugh The Seven Who Were Hanged |  | |
 | Yury Annenkov (1889–1974) | A Tale of Trivia |  | |
 | Aleksey Apukhtin (1840–1893) | From Death to Life The Archive of Countess D |  |  |
 | Maria Arbatova (born 1957) | My name is Woman |  | |
 | Mikhail Artsybashev (1878–1927) | Sanin Ivan Lande Breaking Point Tales of the Revolution |  |  |
 | Viktor Astafyev (1924–2001) | Queen Fish Sad Detective To Live Your Life The Cursed and the Slain |  | |
 | Arkady Averchenko (1881–1925) | Ninochka |  |  |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Isaak Babel (1894–1940) | Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales |  |  |
 | Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) | The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive | ||
| Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) | A Week Like Any Other | |||
 | Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) | The Malachite Box |  |  |
 | Dmitry Begichev (1786–1855) | The Kholmsky Family | ||
| Alexander Bek (1903–1972) | And Not to Die The Story of an Inventor The New Appointment | |||
 | Andrei Bely (1880–1934) | Petersburg Kotik Letaev The Silver Dove Moscow |  |  |
 | Alexander Belyaev (1884–1942) | Professor Dowell's Head Ariel Amphibian Man |  |  |
| Nina Berberova (1901–1993) | The Accompanist The Tattered Cloak The Italics are Mine The Book of Happiness |  | ||
 | Alexander Bestuzhev (1797–1837) | The Test On Bivouac |  |  |
| Vitaly Bianki (1894–1959) | Whose Nose is Better? | |||
 | Aleksei Bibik (1878–1976) | |||
 | Andrei Bitov (1937–2018) | Pushkin House The Monkey Link Life in Windy Weather A Captive of the Caucasus | ||
| Nikolai Blagoveshchensky (1837–1889) | Before the Dawn | |||
 | Pyotr Boborykin (1836–1921) | China Town | ||
 | Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928) | Red Star |  | |
| Vladimir Bogomolov (1926–2003) | Ivan The Moment of Truth | |||
| Yuri Bondarev (1924–2020) | Silence The Shore The Hot Snow | |||
| Leonid Borodin (1938–2011) | Partings The Third Truth The Story of a Strange Time The Year of Miracle and Grief | |||
 | Valery Bryusov (1873–1924) | The Fiery Angel The Republic of the Southern Cross |  |  |
 | Yury Buida (born 1954) | The Zero Train The Prussian Bride Sinbad the Sailor | ||
 | Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) | The White Guard The Master and Margarita Heart of a Dog The Fatal Eggs |  | |
 | Kir Bulychev (1934–2003) | Half a Life Great Gusliar Earth and Elsewhere Alisa Selezneva | ||
 | Ivan Bunin (1870–1953) | Dry Valley The Village Dark Avenues The Life of Arseniev |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Aleksey Chapygin (1870–1937) | Stepan Razin |  | |
| Sergei Charchoun (1888–1975) | Dolgolikov | |||
 | Lidia Charskaya (1875–1938) | Princess Dzhavakha |  | |
 | Alexander Chekhov (1855–1913) |  |  | |
 | Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) | A Dreary Story Ward No. 6 The Duel Peasants |  |  |
 | Nikolay Chernyshevsky (1828–1889) | What Is to Be Done? |  | |
 | Evgeny Chirikov (1864–1932) | The Magician Strained Relations Marka of the Pits |  |  |
| Lydia Chukovskaya (1907–1996) | Sofia Petrovna | |||
 | Georgy Chulkov (1879–1939) |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yuli Daniel (1925–1988) | This is Moscow Speaking | |||
 | Grigory Danilevsky (1829–1890) | Moscow in Flames The Princess Tarakanova |  |  |
 | Grigoriy Demidovtsev (born 1960) |  |  | |
 | Valentina Dmitryeva (1859–1947) | Hveska, The Doctor's Watchman |  |  |
 | Leonid Dobychin (1894–1936) | The Town of N Encounters with Lise |  | |
 | Yury Dombrovsky (1909–1978) | The Faculty of Useless Knowledge The Keeper of Antiquities | ||
 | Vlas Doroshevich (1864–1922) | Legends and Stories of the East |  | |
 | Lyubov Dostoyevskaya (1869–1926) | The Emigrant |  |  |
 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) | Notes from Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot Demons The Brothers Karamazov The House of the Dead The Gambler "White Nights" "A Gentle Creature" "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" |  |  |
 | Mikhail Dostoyevsky (1820–1864) |  |  | |
| Sergei Dovlatov (1941–1990) | The Zone Affiliate | |||
 | Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864) | Polinka Saks The Story of Aleksei Dmitrich |  |  |
| Vladimir Dudintsev (1918–1998) | White Garments A New Year's Tale Not by Bread Alone | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) | Julio Jurenito The Thaw |  |  |
 | Sergey Elpatyevsky (1854–1933) | Pity Me! The Homeless Ones | ||
 | Asar Eppel (1935–2012) | The Grassy Street Red Caviar Sandwiches | ||
 | Victor Erofeyev (born 1947) | Russian Beauty Life with an Idiot | ||
 | Alexander Ertel (1855–1908) | The Specialist A Greedy Peasant |  | |
| Mikhail Evstafiev (born 1963) | Two Steps from Heaven | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Fadeyev (1901–1956) | The Rout The Young Guard |  | ||
| Konstantin Fedin (1892–1977) | Early Joys The Conflagration Cities and Years No Ordinary Summer | |||
| Olga Forsh (1873–1961) | Palace and Prison Pioneers of Freedom | |||
 | Dmitry Furmanov (1891–1926) | Chapayev |  |  |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkady Gaidar (1904–1941) | Chuk and Gek The Blue Cup Timur and his Gang |  | ||
 | Nikolai Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852–1906) | Practical Training |  |  |
 | Vsevolod Garshin (1855–1888) | Four Days The Red Flower |  |  |
 | Gaito Gazdanov (1903–1971) | An Evening with Claire Night Roads The Spectre of Alexander Wolf |  | |
| Yuri German (1910–1967) | Ivan Lapshin The Cause You Serve | |||
 | Zinaida Gippius (1869–1945) | The Devil's Doll Roman-Tzarevich |  | |
 | Anatoly Gladilin (1935–2018) | Moscow Racetrack |  | |
 | Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958) | Cement Restless Youth | ||
 | Dmitry Glukhovsky (born 1979) | Metro 2033 | ||
 | Pyotr Gnedich (1855–1925) | The Burden of this World | ||
 | Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) | Dikanka Taras Bulba The Overcoat Dead Souls |  |  |
 | Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) | A Common Story Oblomov The Precipice |  |  |
 | Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) | Mother Through Russia Stories of 1922–1924 The Artamonov Business The Life of Klim Samgin |  |  |
| Nina Gorlanova (born 1947) | ||||
 | Daniil Granin (1919–2017) | Into the Storm Those Who Seek |  | |
 | Dmitry Grigorovich (1822–1900) | The Fishermen |  |  |
| Alexander Grin (1880–1932) | Scarlet Sails The Seeker of Adventure |  |  | |
 | Isabella Grinevskaya (1864–1944) | |||
 | Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) | Stalingrad Life and Fate Forever Flowing |  | |
 | Elena Guro (1887–1913) | Autumnal Dream The Hurdy-Gurdy The Little Camels of the Sky |  |  |
 | Andrei Gusev (born 1952) | With Chronos' Permit On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds The World According to Novikoff |  | |
 | Sergey Gusev-Orenburgsky (1867–1963) | The Land of the Fathers The Land of the Children | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Herzen (1812–1870) | Who is to Blame? |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ilf and Petrov Ilf (1897–1937) Petrov (1903–1942) | The Twelve Chairs The Little Golden Calf |  |  |
| Fazil Iskander (1929–2016) | Chik and His Friends Sandro of Chegem The Gospel According to Chegem The Thirteenth Labour of Hercules |  |  | |
 | Alexei Ivanov (born 1969) | |||
 | Vsevolod Ivanov (1895–1963) | Armoured Train 14-69 U The Kremlin The Secret of Secrets | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Nikolay Karamzin (1766–1826) | Poor Liza |  |  |
 | Nikolay Karazin (1842–1908) | The Two-Legged Wolf From North to South |  | |
 | Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky (1853–1892) | First Storm | ||
| Vladimir Karpov (1922–2010) | The Commander | |||
| Anna Kashina | In the Name of the Queen | |||
 | Ivan Kataev (1902–1937) | The Wife Immortality | ||
| Valentin Kataev (1897–1986) | Time Forward! The Embezzlers A White Sail Gleams The Cottage in the Steppe | |||
| Veniamin Kaverin (1902–1989) | Open Book The Two Captains The Unknown Artist | |||
| Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913–1962) | Star: A Story The Blue Notebook | |||
| Yury Kazakov (1927–1982) | Going To Town Adam and Eve | |||
 | Yuri Khanon (born 1965) | Skryabin As a Face Antedate Memories Alphonse, who didn't was |  |  |
 | Daniil Kharms (1905–1942) | The Old Woman |  | |
 | Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1889) | The Boarding School Girl |  |  |
| Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824–1865) | City Folk and Country Folk | |||
 | Marusya Klimova (born 1961) |  | ||
| Vsevolod Kochetov (1912–1973) | The Zhurbin Family What Do You Want Then? | |||
| Ivan Kokorev (1825–1853) | ||||
| Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) | Red Love A Great Love Love of Worker Bees |  |  | |
 | Vladimir Korolenko (1853–1921) | Bad Company Makar's Dream The Blind Musician |  | |
 | Sofia Kovalevskaya (1859–1891) | Nihilist Girl |  |  |
| Vadim Kozhevnikov (1909–1984) | Shield and Sword | |||
| Nadezhda Kozhevnikova (born 1949) | Attorney Alexandra Tikhonovna | |||
 | Eugene Kozlovsky (1946–2023) | |||
 | Vsevolod Krestovsky (1840–1895) | Knights of Industry |  | |
 | Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950) | Quadraturin | ||
 | Anatoly Kudryavitsky (born 1954) | |||
 | Aleksandr Kuprin (1870–1938) | The Duel Yama: The Pit The Bracelet of Garnets |  |  |
 | Andrey Kurkov (born 1961) | Death and the Penguin Penguin Lost | ||
 | Ivan Kushchevsky (1847–1876) | Nikolai Negorev |  | |
 | Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936) | Wings |  |  |
| Anatoly Kuznetsov (1929–1979) | Babi Yar | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lazar Lagin (1903–1979) | The Old Genie Hottabych | |||
 | Yulia Latynina (born 1966) | The Insider | ||
| Boris Lavrenyov (1891–1953) | The Forty-First The Heavenly Cap Such a Simple Thing The Courageous Heart | |||
 | Ivan Lazhechnikov (1792–1869) | The Heretic |  | |
 | Leonid Leonov (1899–1995) | The Badgers Soviet River The Thief The Pyramid | ||
 | Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) | A Hero of Our Time |  |  |
 | Nikolai Leskov (1831–1895) | The Cathedral Folk The Sealed Angel The Enchanted Wanderer Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk |  | |
 | Alexander Levitov (1835–1877) | Leatherhide the Cobbler |  | |
 | Nikolay Leykin (1841–1906) | Our Folk Abroad |  | |
 | Vladimir Lichutin (born 1940) | |||
 | Eduard Limonov (1943–2020) | It's Me, Eddie His Butler's Story Memoir of a Russian Punk |  |  |
| Dmitri Lipskerov (born 1964) | ||||
 | Sergey Lukyanenko (born 1968) | Night Watch Day Watch Twilight Watch Last Watch |  | |
 | Lev Lunts (1901–1924) | Native Land | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Grigori Machtet (1852–1901) | |||
 | Vladimir Makanin (1937–2017) | Baize-Covered Table With Decanter | ||
 | Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) | The Egyptian Stamp |  | |
 | Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852–1912) | Verotchka's Tales A Gold Nugget The Privalov Fortune |  |  |
 | Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) | Cynics |  | |
 | Alexandra Marinina (born 1957) | |||
 | Boleslav Markevich (1822–1884) | The Turning Point | ||
| Vladilen Mashkovtsev (1929–1997) | ||||
 | Pavel Melnikov (1818–1883) | |||
 | Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) | Christ and Antichrist (trilogy) |  |  |
 | Daniil Mordovtsev (1830–1905) | The Tsar and the Hetman | ||
 | Viktor Muyzhel (1880–1924) | The Year | ||
| Viktor Muravin (born 1929) | The Diary of Vikenty Angarov | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) | Mary The Defense The Gift Lolita |  | |
| Yuri Nagibin (1920–1994) | The Pipe Arise and Walk | |||
 | Vasily Narezhny (1780–1825) | A Russian Gil Blas | ||
 | Nikolay Naumov (1838–1901) | Strength Breaks the Straw | ||
| Andrei Navrozov (born 1956) | ||||
| Viktor Nekrasov (1911–1987) | Front-line Stalingrad Kira Georgievna | |||
 | Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845–1936) | Peasant Tales of Russia | ||
 | Alexander Neverov (1886–1923) | City of Bread |  | |
| Friedrich Neznansky (1932–2013) | Red Square Night Wolves | |||
| Nikolay Nosov (1908–1976) | Neznaika |  | ||
 | Alexey Novikov-Priboy (1877–1944) | Tsushima The Captain The Sea Beckons | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Vladimir Obruchev (1863–1956) | Plutonia Sannikov Land | ||
 | Vladimir Odoevsky (1803–1869) | Two Princesses The Living Corpse The Year 4338: Petersburg Letters |  |  |
 | Bulat Okudzhava (1924–1997) | A Taste of Liberty Good-bye, Schoolboy! The Art of Needles and Sins |  | |
 | Yury Olesha (1899–1960) | Envy Three Fat Men The Cherry Pit |  | |
| Vladimir Orlov (1936–2014) | Danilov, the Violist | |||
 | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904–1936) | Born of the Storm How the Steel Was Tempered |  | |
| Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942) | Quiet Street My Sister's Story | |||
| Valentin Ovechkin (1904–1968) | Greetings from the Front | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Marina Palei (born 1955) | Rendezvous |  | |
 | Ivan Panaev (1812–1862) | Lions in the Provinces |  | |
 | Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893) | A Woman's Lot | ||
| Vera Panova (1905–1973) | Seryozha Looking Ahead The Train Span of the Year |  | ||
 | Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) | Doctor Zhivago The Childhood of Luvers |  |  |
 | Konstantin Paustovsky (1892–1968) | A Tale of Life (6 novel series) | ||
| Pyotr Pavlenko (1899–1951) | Happiness Steppe Sunlight The Lost Son | |||
 | Oleg Pavlov (1970–2018) | |||
 | Karolina Pavlova (1807–1893) | A Double Life |  | |
| Victor Pelevin (born 1962) | Omon Ra | |||
 | Lyudmila Petrushevskaya (born 1938) | The Time: Night | ||
| Valentin Pikul (1928–1990) | ||||
 | Boris Pilnyak (1894–1938) | The Naked Year The Death of the Army Commander The Volga Falls into the Caspian Sea | ||
 | Aleksey Pisemsky (1821–1881) | Nina The Simpleton One Thousand Souls An Old Man's Sin |  |  |
 | Andrei Platonov (1899–1951) | Chevengur Dzhan The Foundation Pit Happy Moscow | ||
| Boris Polevoy (1908–1981) | He Came Back We Are Soviet People The Story of a Real Man | |||
 | Nikolay Pomyalovsky (1835–1863) | Seminary Sketches |  | |
 | Ignaty Potapenko (1856–1929) | A Russian Priest The General's Daughter |  | |
 | Dmitri Prigov (1940–2007) | Live in Moskow | ||
 | Zakhar Prilepin (born 1975) | |||
 | Alexander Prokhanov (born 1938) | Empire's Last Soldier | ||
 | Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) | The Queen of Spades The Captain's Daughter |  | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Radishchev (1749–1802) | Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow |  | |
| Valentin Rasputin (1937–2015) | Money for Maria Farewell to Matyora |  | ||
 | Aleksey Remizov (1877–1957) | The Clock Sisters of the Cross The History of the Tinkling Cymbal and Sounding Brass | ||
 | Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1871) | The Podlipnayans |  | |
 | Panteleimon Romanov (1884–1938) | Three Pairs of Silk Stockings Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms | ||
| Mikhail Roshchin (1933–2010) | First Love Twenty Minutes or So The Devil's Wheel in Kobuleti | |||
 | Dina Rubina (born 1953) | The Blackthorn |  | |
| Anatoly Rybakov (1911–1998) | Children of the Arbat Fear Dust and Ashes | |||
| Vladimir Rybakov (1947–2018) | Creature The Brand The Burden The Afghans | |||
 | Vyacheslav Rybakov (born 1954) | Artist The Trial Sphere | ||
| Maria Rybakova (born 1973) | ||||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irina Saburova (1907–1979) | Because of the Violets | |||
| German Sadulaev (born 1973) | I am a Chechen! | |||
 | Ilya Salov (1834–1902) | Butuzka | ||
 | Boris Savinkov (1879–1925) | The Pale Horse What Never Happened | ||
 | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826–1889) | The Golovlyov Family The History of a Town Modern Idyll Old Years in Poshekhonye |  |  |
 | Genrikh Sapgir (1928–1999) | |||
 | Sergey Semyonov (1868–1922) | Gluttons The Servant |  | |
| Yulian Semyonov (1931–1993) | Seventeen Instants of Spring | |||
 | Alexander Serafimovich (1863–1949) | Sand Nikita The Iron Flood The Little Miner | ||
 | Sergey Sergeyev-Tsensky (1875–1958) | Brusilov's Break-Through | ||
 | Marietta Shaginyan (1888–1982) | Mess-Mend | ||
| Varlam Shalamov (1907–1982) | The Kolyma Tales |  | ||
 | Olga Shapir (1850–1916) | The Settlement | ||
 | Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik (1874–1952) | Deborah | ||
 | Alexander Sheller (1838–1900) | Putrid Moors | ||
 | Mikhail Shishkin (born 1961) |  |  | |
| Vyacheslav Shishkov (1873–1945) | Children of Darkness | |||
 | Ivan Shmelyov (1873–1950) | The Stone Age | ||
 | Mikhail Sholokhov (1905–1984) | And Quiet Flows the Don |  | |
| Ilya Shtemler (1933–2022) | ||||
| Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) | Stories from a Siberian Village | |||
| Konstantin Simonov (1915–1979) | Days and Nights The Living and the Dead |  | ||
| Andrei Sinyavsky (1925–1997) | Fantastic Stories | |||
 | Stepan Skitalets (1869–1941) | The Blacksmith The Love of a Scene Painter |  |  |
 | Vasily Sleptsov (1836–1878) | The Ward |  | |
| Sofia Soboleva (1840–1884) | Pros and Cons | |||
| Sasha Sokolov (born 1943) | A School for Fools | |||
 | Vladimir Sollogub (1813–1882) | The Snowstorm |  | |
 | Fyodor Sologub (1863–1927) | The Petty Demon The Created Legend |  |  |
| Vladimir Soloukhin (1924–1997) | Verdict | |||
| Leonid Solovyov (1906–1962) | Tale of Hodja Nasreddin | |||
 | Vsevolod Solovyov (1849–1903) | |||
 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) | The First Circle Cancer Ward The Red Wheel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich |  | |
| Orest Somov (1793–1833) | Mommy and Sonny | |||
 | Vladimir Sorokin (born 1955) | The Queue Day of the Oprichnik Blue Lard | ||
 | Konstantin Staniukovich (1843–1903) | Bobtail Maximka The Convict Running to the Shrouds |  | |
 | Anna Starobinets (born 1978) | |||
 | Arkady and Boris Strugatsky Arkady (1925–1991) Boris (1933–2012) | Prisoners of Power The Kid from Hell Hard to Be a God Roadside Picnic | ||
| Mikhail Sushkov (1775–1792) | The Russian Werther | |||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov (1885–1938) | Chocolate | ||
| Nadezhda Teffi (1872–1952) | Time Strangers Close Friends |  | ||
 | Nikolay Teleshov (1867–1957) | The Duel |  |  |
| Vladimir Tendryakov (1923–1984) | Son-in-Law Three, Seven, Ace | |||
 | Sergey Terpigorev (1841–1895) | The Ice Broke | ||
 | Nikolay Tikhonov (1896–1979) | War | ||
 | Vladislav Titov (1934–1987) | |||
 | Tatyana Tolstaya (born 1951) | The Slynx White Walls | ||
 | Aleksey K. Tolstoy (1817–1875) | Prince Serebrenni |  |  |
 | Aleksey N. Tolstoy (1883–1945) | Buratino Aelita Peter the First The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin |  | |
 | Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) | The Cossacks War and Peace Anna Karenina The Death of Ivan Ilyich |  |  |
 | Edward Topol (born 1938) | Red Square | ||
| Yury Trifonov (1925–1981) | Another Life The Old Man The Disappearance The Long Good-Bye | |||
| Gavriil Troyepolsky (1905–1995) | White Bim Black Ear | |||
| Alexei Tsvetkov (1947–2022) | ||||
 | Evgenia Tur (1815–1892) | Antonina The Shalonski Family | ||
 | Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) | A Sportsman's Sketches Home of the Gentry On the Eve Fathers and Sons |  |  |
 | Yury Tynyanov (1894–1943) | Lieutenant Kijé | [1] | |
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anya Ulinich (born 1973) | Petropolis | ||
 | Pavel Ulitin (1918–1986) | |||
 | Lyudmila Ulitskaya (born 1943) | Sonechka The Funeral Party Medea and Her Children Daniel Stein |  | |
 | Gleb Uspensky (1843–1902) | The Steam Chicken |  |  |
 | Nikolay Uspensky (1837–1889) | Porridge The Village Schoolmaster | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Pyotr Valuyev (1815–1890) |  | ||
 | Konstantin Vaginov (1899–1934) | Goat Song Works and Days of Svistonov |  | |
 | Tatiana Vedenska (born 1976) | |||
 | Mikhail Veller (born 1948) | The Guru | ||
 | Alexander Veltman (1800–1870) | The Wanderer |  | |
 | Anastasiya Verbitskaya (1861–1928) | The Keys to Happiness |  | |
 | Vikenty Veresaev (1867–1945) | Sisters The Deadlock In the Steppe |  |  |
 | Lidia Veselitskaya (1857–1936) | Mimi's Marriage | ||
 | Igor Vishnevetsky (born 1964) | Leningrad Non-Elective Affinities | ||
| Nikolai Virta (1906–1976) | Alone | |||
| Georgi Vladimov (1931–2003) | Faithful Ruslan | |||
 | Vladimir Voinovich (1932–2018) | Moscow 2042 Private Ivan Chonkin | ||
 | Zinaida Volkonskaya (1792–1862) | The Dream: A Letter | ||
 | Alexander Volkov (1891–1977) | The Wizard of the Emerald City | ||
 | Marko Vovchok (1833–1907) | Ukrainian Folk Tales |  | |
| Julia Voznesenskaya (1940–2015) | The Women's Decameron | |||
| Alexander Vvedensky (1904–1941) | Murderers You are Fools |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Yakovlev (1886–1953) | The Peasant | |||
| Alexander Yashin (1913–1968) | A Feast of Rowan Berries | |||
| Ivan Yefremov (1908–1972) | Andromeda Razor's Edge The Bull's Hour The Land of Foam | |||
| Dmitri Yemets (born 1974) | Tanya Grotter series | |||
| Venedict Yerofeyev (1938–1990) | Moscow-Petushki | |||
| Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933–2017) | Wild Berries |  | ||
 | Semyon Yushkevich (1868–1927) |  | ||
| Portrait | Author | Notable works | Illustration | Illustration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Mikhail Zagoskin (1789–1852) | Tales of Three Centuries |  | |
| Sergey Zalygin (1913–2000) | The South American Variant | |||
 | Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) | We A Provincial Tale |  |  |
 | Boris Zaytsev (1881–1972) | Anna | ||
 | Ilia Zdanevich (1894–1975) | Rapture | ||
 | Yulia Zhadovskaya (1824–1883) | The Backward Girl | ||
 | Vera Zhelikhovsky (1835–1896) | The General's Will | ||
 | Boris Zhitkov (1882–1938) | Viktor Vavich |  | |
| Maria Zhukova (1804–1855) | Evenings on the Karpovka | |||
| Zinovy Zinik (born 1945) | The Mushroom-Picker | |||
 | Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866–1907) | The Tragic Menagerie | ||
 | Nikolay Zlatovratsky (1845–1911) | Old Shadows | ||
 | Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895–1958) | Youth Restored Blue Book Before Sunrise |  | |